dragonsource 龙源 forum on chinese digital content ceal meeting, toronto wednesday, march 14, 2012
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Features
• Browse-able from cover to cover– Scanned image– Text file (with copy & paste function)
• Searchable by:– Magazine/journal title– Article title or headline– Full-text
Coverage
• Thousands of magazines/journals to choose from:– Mostly popular magazines – Some scholarly journals
• Time span varies:– 读书 1979-– 大众电影 2001-– 收获 1999- (scattered issues 1999-2004)– 日本学刊 2006-
Strengths• Currency – available as soon as it is published
without time lag.• Stable access to both current and back issues• Easy to read – Cover to cover– Go directly to desired page
• Easy to navigate– ↓ ↑ to scroll down & up– → ← to go to next or previous page
• Easy to toggle between image version & Text version
Weaknesses
• Lacks several important functions:– Print– Email– Save
• Toggle from text version to image version does not go back to the same page
• The page number on the navigation bar does not correspond to the page number inside the magazine.